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... give you notice of them , and to solicit your countenance . You must ask no poor man , because the price is really too high . Yet such a work deserves patronage . " It is proposed to augment our club from twenty to thirty , of which I ...
... give you notice of them , and to solicit your countenance . You must ask no poor man , because the price is really too high . Yet such a work deserves patronage . " It is proposed to augment our club from twenty to thirty , of which I ...
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... gives me great pleasure ; it was all that you seemed to want . " My health is very bad , and my nights are very ... give me some information about him , for the Life which we have is very scanty , I should be glad . I am , dear Sir ...
... gives me great pleasure ; it was all that you seemed to want . " My health is very bad , and my nights are very ... give me some information about him , for the Life which we have is very scanty , I should be glad . I am , dear Sir ...
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... give you a list of the Poets we mean to give , many of which are within the time of the Act of Queen Anne , which Martin and Bell cannot give , as they have no property in them ; the proprietors are almost all the booksellers in London ...
... give you a list of the Poets we mean to give , many of which are within the time of the Act of Queen Anne , which Martin and Bell cannot give , as they have no property in them ; the proprietors are almost all the booksellers in London ...
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... give me for you every particular that you wish to know , and she can tell . Pray then take the trouble to send me such questions as may lead to biographical materials . You say that the Life which we have of Thomson is scanty . Since I ...
... give me for you every particular that you wish to know , and she can tell . Pray then take the trouble to send me such questions as may lead to biographical materials . You say that the Life which we have of Thomson is scanty . Since I ...
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... give you ; and being going soon to Lichfield , think it necessary to be left behind me . " More I will not say . succour the nephew of Grotius . " I am , Sir , You will want no persuasion to " Your most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON ...
... give you ; and being going soon to Lichfield , think it necessary to be left behind me . " More I will not say . succour the nephew of Grotius . " I am , Sir , You will want no persuasion to " Your most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON ...
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Page 115 - Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Page 536 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff 'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 483 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Page 359 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor,) Delivers in such apt and gracious words, That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished ; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Page 251 - Poor stuff! No, sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men : but he who aspires to be a hero (smiling) must drink brandy.
Page 366 - Why," said Johnson, smiling and rolling himself about, "that is because, dearest, you're a dunce." When she some time afterwards mentioned this to him, he said, with equal truth and politeness, " Madam, if I had thought so, I certainly should not have said it.
Page 200 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
Page 529 - And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and little to be known...
Page 365 - ... only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how.